FDA Approves Meat, Milk from Cloned Animals; No Labels Necessary
December 27th, 2006The darkness really is closing in on the U.S. now. It’s a struggle, trying to think of meaningful things to write about the U.S. and stories like this…
Most people involved with the meat industrial complex have never seen a cow on pasture. Have a look at the cows my wife and I are raising. You don’t have to bother with the words; the pictures are pretty self explanatory. Clones? Needles? Toxic chemicals? We don’t have any of that stuff on our farm and our cows are healthy, plump, active and happy.
Via: Boston Globe:
A long-awaited study by US scientists has concluded that meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring are safe to eat and drink and should be allowed to enter the food supply without any special labeling.
The finding is a strong signal that the Food and Drug Administration will endorse the use of cloning technology for cattle, goats, and pigs when it publishes a key safety assessment intended to clear the way for formal approval of the products. That assessment is expected this week.
“All of the studies indicate that the composition of meat and milk from clones is within the compositional ranges of meat and milk consumed in the US,” the FDA scientists concluded in a report published in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Theriogenology, which focuses on animal reproduction.
The study, however, prompted a sharp reaction from food safety advocates.
The FDA “has been trying to foist this bad science on us for several years,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Food Safety in Washington. “When there is so much concern among so many Americans, this is really a rush to judgment.”
Many ranchers and dairy producers have already cloned animals for meat and milk production, but a voluntary moratorium initiated about five years ago by the FDA has largely kept them and their offspring out of grocery stores and restaurants.
However, ranchers say there is no doubt that some of the animals taken to slaughterhouses in the past couple of years have been fathered by clones.
“There’s been lots and lots of them that went into the food chain,” said Larry Coleman, who raises limousin cattle in Charlo, Mont., and has made five clones of his prize bull, named First Down. He estimated that at least 10 of their offspring have wound up on dinner tables.
Since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, agricultural scientists have imagined a time when they could dispense with the uncertainties of conventional breeding and make exact copies of their best animals. Cows were cloned in 1998 and pigs followed in 2000.
Consumers greeted the news with a combination of amazement and revulsion.
[…] Head down to the clean, green Walmart to buy some blood soaked crap made by slaves in China with your somehow fungible U.S. dollars. Haul your goods back to your no-money-down, stucco box (”bought” with a 50 year adjustable rate mortgage) in your new, all electric, zero emission SUV! Water your lawn. Enjoy a handful of genetically engineered peanuts as you BBQ a big, juicy clone burger. Live it up! Because it’s back to work on Monday morning. […]
“Amazement and revulsion” do indeed best describe this consumer’s response.
Gack!
What’s next, animals bred to want people to eat them (ala “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”)?
Feds Approve Cloned Meat & Milk! Hooray!…
Government scientists have come to the rock-solid conclusion that it’s totally safe to eat cloned meat and dairy products from cloned animals. This basically means that you can stumble upon the Perfect Steak and then get the ID number of……
What about any additional chemicals that was used to clone? What effect will this have on the human body?
What possible reason would we have to eat cloned meat? I swear the FDA wants 20% of us to die all at once.
Why is it that after millions of years of doing it nature’s way, we humans, in all our hubris, have suddenly taken it upon ourselves to determine that nature doesn’t know what the hell it is doing, and somehow we can do it better?
What kind of evidence is there to suggest that cloned meat isnt harmful years later?
So many questions and yet no answers. This is being thrown upon us with no choice in the matter.
What effect does cloned meat have on the human body? Why are we not allowed to know which meat is cloned and which isnt? Why no labels? What is going on here?
Something is not right….
Why do we have to eat chemical-filled fake stuff? I mean, why not just eat what is real- and won’t kill us in later years. God put livestock on earth for us to eat, not clone. God knew what He was doing. There was a purpose for it-and that was not for us to clone! And, since you are cloning the animals, why can we not know what is cloned and what isn’t? I think I have a right to know what I am paying for- and much less- putting into my body!!!!
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